=B.= BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, _June 17, 1775_.—There are four sufficient authorities for tracing all that is known respecting the battle of Bunker Hill, even to minute particulars, especially with respect to the testimony of those who, from nearness to the event, or from opportunity, are best entitled to be considered in the matter. The earliest master of the literature and records of the fight was Richard Frothingham, who through life was identified with the story of Bunker Hill, and who has on the whole, in his _Siege of Boston_ and in his _Life of Joseph Warren_, given us the amplest details.[547] His latest gleanings were included in _The Battlefield of Bunker hill: with a relation of the action by William Prescott, and illustrative documents. A paper communicated to the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 10, 1875, with additions._ (Boston: printed for the author. 1876. 46 pp.)[548] In June, 1868, Henry B. Dawson, in a special number of the _Historical Magazine_, entered into an elaborate collation of nearly all that had been published up to that time, making his references in footnotes, which serve as a bibliography of the subject.[549] [Illustration: LEXINGTON GREEN. From the _Massachusetts Magazine_ (Boston, 1794). Four views (12 X 18 inches, on copper) of different aspects of the day's fight were drawn by Earl, a portrait painter, and engraved by Amos Doolittle shortly afterward. They are reproduced in the centennial edition of Jonas Clark's _Narrative_; in Frank Moore's _Ballad History_; in _Potter's American Monthly_, April, 1875; in _Antique views of y^e Town of Boston_; and separately, with an explanatory text, by E. G. Porter, as _Four Drawings of the Engagement at Lexington and Concord_ (Boston, 1883). The view of the attack on Lexington Green was drawn from Daniel Harrington's house (see plan), and was reduced by Doolittle himself for Barber's _History of New Haven_. (W. S. Baker's _Amer. Engravers_, Philad., 1875, p. 45.) It has also been redrawn several times by others. See Lossing's _Field-Book_, i. 421, 524; Hudson's _Lexington_, p. 183; the Centennial edition of Phinney, etc. Earl and Doolittle were soldiers of a New Haven company, which reached Cambridge a few days after the fight. There is a view of Concord taken in 1776 in the _Massachusetts Mag._, July, 1794, which is reproduced in Whitney's _Literature of the Nineteenth of April_. There is an early but fanciful picture of the "Journée de Lexington" in François Godefroy's _Recueil d'Estampes representant les different événemens de la guerre qui a procuré l'indépendence aux États Unis de l'Amérique_. An account of Jonathan Harrington, the last survivor of the fight, is in _Potter's Amer. Monthly_, April, 1875, and in Jones's _New York during the Revolution_, i. 552. In fiction, mention need only be made of Cooper's _Lionel Lincoln_, and Hawthorne's _Septimus Felton_.